Fiorella Zampetti

On the relationship between refactoring actions and bugs: a differentiated replication

2020

Software refactoring aims at improving code quality while preserving the system's external behavior. Although in principle refactoring is a behavior-preserving activity, a study presented by Bavota etal in 2012 reported the proneness of some refactoring …

Do LLMs Provide Links to Code Similar to what they Generate? A Study with Gemini and Bing CoPilot

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Large Language Models (LLMs) are currently used for various software development tasks, including generating code snippets to solve specific problems. Unlike reuse from the Web, LLMs are limited in providing provenance information about the generated …